PERSONAL HYGIENE FOR WOMEN (Part 4 of 8) Use of Water to Maintain Personal Hygiene

Introduction (5 minutes)

• Welcome the participants.
• Remind the participants of the purpose of the course (the general objective, the number of sessions, the expected outcome).
• Introduce today session (objective and how long it will be).

Ice-breaking game (10 minutes)

• Explain that you are going to do an ice-breaking game to warm up the participant and to help them to improve their listening and concentration skills during the session.
• Gather the participants in one group, seated.
• Ask one person to stand up in front of the group. The group has to take a good look at the person.
• This person will go outside and she will change one detail (for example change the finger ring).
• She will come back in front of the group, and the group has to guess what changed.
• If nobody fine the detail after a couple of minutes, then she can give a clue (like it’s on my arm).
• Thank the participants for their participation.

Main activity (70 minutes)

Part 1: Review of last workshop (10 minutes)

Show them the picture that they drew in the last workshop and ask them if they remember what we discussed in our last workshop. Encourage everyone to participate.

Part 2: Introduce the use of water for personal hygiene (40 minutes)

• Explain what we aim to learn today: how to use water to maintain personal hygiene
• Explain that clean water is important for many uses in our life (drinking, cooking, washing dishes, growing plants/crops, laundry, bathing).
• Refer to picture 3.1 and explain that proper hand washing before eating and after going to the toilets lowers exposure to germs.
• Now ask them to explain what they see in picture 3.2

Their response should include the need to wash our clothes with soap/detergent to make them germ-free and dry them in the sunlight.

Encourage everyone to participate and contribute to the discussion.

Part 3: Washing Hands (20 minutes)

• Ask what they know about handwashing and its importance.
• Explain the importance of washing hands (how germs cannot go inside our body if we wash our hands with soap frequently)
• Discuss when to wash hands
• Now ask them what they have learned
• Divide them into groups.
• Ask them to draw the steps of cleaning hands
• Ask each group to come forward and explain the steps.
  (Encourage everyone to clap)
• If needed, explain one more time so that everyone has understood. Ask the participants if they have understood, ask them to explain to you and to the other participants what they understood, congratulate everyone who gives a correct answer, and corrects it if necessary (without noticing who made the mistake)

Conclusion (5 minutes)

• Thank the participants for their involvement and concentration during the session.
• Summarize what was learned during the session (importance of the use of clean water, steps of cleaning hands)
• Collect feedback from the participants by asking questions like: “Do you feel like you learn something during the session?” “Do you think this new knowledge can be useful to you?” “Were you comfortable during the session?”

Give the participants the date and the location of the next session, make sure everybody will be available. If not, find a more convenient time and place so everybody can be here.